Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts has written at least 693 books. Their most popular book is Year One with 253 saves with an average rating of 3.63⭐. Their next book, Hidden Nature, is scheduled for release on .
Author Bio
Eleanor Marie Robertson was born on October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. She was the youngest of the five children, also the only girl, of a marriage with Irish ancestors. Her family were avid readers, so books were always important in her life. She attended a Catholic school and credits the nuns with instilling in her a sense of discipline. During her sophomore year in high school, she transferred to a local public school, where she met Ronald Aufdem-Brinke, her future first husband.
In August 17, 1968, as soon as she had graduated from High School, Eleanor married, against her parents' wishes. The marriage settled in Keedysville, Maryland. Her husband worked at his father's sheet-metal business before joining her parents in their lighting company. While, she worked briefly as a legal secretary. "I could type fast but couldn't spell, I was the worst legal secretary ever," she says now. After their sons, Dan and Jason, were born she stayed home. Calling this her "Earth Mother" years, she spent much of her time doing crafts, including ceramics and sewing her children's clothes. The marriage ended separating, and they obtained the divorce in January 1985.
In February 1979, a blizzard in forced her hand to try another creative outlet. She was snowed in with a three and six year old with no kindergarten respite in sight and a dwindling supply of chocolate. During the now famous blizzard, she pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write down one of those stories. It was there that a career was born. Several manuscripts and rejections later, her first book, Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981 as Nora Roberts, a shortened form of her birth name Eleanor Marie Robertson, because she assumed that all authors had pen names.
Eleanor wrote under the pseudonym Jill March a story for a magazine titled "Melodies of Love".
Eleanor met her second husband, Bruce Wilder, when she hired him to build bookshelves. They were married in July 1985. Her husband owns and operates a bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland called "Turn the Page Books". Since that time, they've expanded their home, traveled the world.
In 1992, she decided adopted other pseudonym so to publish a futuristic-suspense novels, she first decided to use the pseudonym D.J. MacGregor, but she discovered that this pseudonym was used by another author. In 1995, her first "In Death" serial novel was published under the pseudonym J.D. Robb, the initials "J.D." were taken from her sons, Jason and Dan, while "Robb" is a shortened form of Roberts.
Eleanor has also been known as Sara Hardesty, because when the "Born In" series was released in U.K. it carried that name instead of Nora Roberts. She has since changed publishers.
Eleanor has been plagiarized by another best-selling romance writer, Janet Dailey. The practice came to light after a reader read Nora Roberts' "Sweet Revenge" and Janet Dailey's "Notorious" back-to-back; she noticed several similarities and posted the comparable passages on the Internet. Calling the plagiarism "mind rape," Eleanor sued Janet Daily. In 1997, Janet, admitted to repeatedly plagiarizing from Nora Roberts' work, and that both "Aspen Gold" and "Notorious" lifted heavily from Nora Roberts's work. Both of those novels were pulled from print after Janet's admission. She acknowledged the plagiarism and blamed it on a psychological disorder. In a settlement, Janet paid Eleanor an undisclosed sum, which Eleanor donated to the Literacy Volunteers of America.
A founding member of the Romance Writers of America (R.W.A.), she was the first inductee in the organization's Hall of Fame. She also is a member of several writers groups and has won countless awards from her colleagues and the publishing industry.
In 1989, Nora Roberts's novel "Magic Moments" had been made into TV movie, also "Sanctuary" (Melissa Gilbert) in 2001. In 2007 Lifetime Television adapted four Nora Roberts's novels into TV movies: , "Montana Sky" (Ashley Williams), "Carolina Moon" (Claire Forlani), "Blue Smoke" (Alicia Witt) and "Angel's Fall" (Heather Locklear).
 Year One
| 3.63 | 111 reads | |
 Night Shift
| 3.98 | 120 reads | |
 The Awakening
| 3.78 | 42 reads | |
 Of Blood and Bone
| 3.28 | 53 reads | |
 Vision in White
| 3.88 | 49 reads | |
 The Obsession
| 3.97 | 36 reads | |
 Dark Witch
| 3.87 | 46 reads | |
 Dance Upon the Air
| 4.26 | 44 reads | |
 The Rise of Magicks
| 3.32 | 33 reads | |
 The Witness
| 3.94 | 34 reads | |
 Born in Fire
| 3.85 | 34 reads | |
 Inheritance
| 4.08 | 16 reads | |
 The Becoming
| 3.52 | 28 reads | |
 The Next Always
| 3.96 | 31 reads | |
 Shadow Spell
| 3.74 | 31 reads | |
 Jewels of the Sun
| 3.67 | 29 reads | |
 Face the Fire
| 4.09 | 34 reads | |
 Identity
| 4 | 21 reads | |
 Happy Ever After
| 4.23 | 37 reads | |
 Blue Dahlia
| 3.63 | 30 reads | |
 The Choice
| 3.88 | 18 reads | |
 Come Sundown
| 3.53 | 24 reads | |
 Born In Ice
| 4.02 | 28 reads | |
 Bed of Roses
| 3.97 | 38 reads | |
 Blood Brothers
| 4.29 | 28 reads | |
 Angels Fall
| 3.9 | 28 reads | |
 Key of Light
| 3.76 | 31 reads | |
 Under Currents
| 3.5 | 14 reads | |
 Black Hills
| 3.86 | 27 reads | |
 Blood Magick
| 3.93 | 25 reads | |
 Born In Shame
| 3.95 | 25 reads | |
 Stars of Fortune
| 3.35 | 24 reads | |
 Nightwork
| 3.45 | 16 reads | |
 Heaven and Earth
| 4.05 | 26 reads | |
 The Last Boyfriend
| 3.83 | 26 reads | |
 The search
| 4 | 21 reads | |
 Birthright
| 3.64 | 25 reads | |
 Chasing Fire
| 4.18 | 20 reads | |
 Blue Smoke
| 3.77 | 25 reads | |
 Northern Lights
| 3.92 | 18 reads | |
 Carolina Moon
| 4 | 22 reads | |
 Hideaway
| 4 | 14 reads | |
 The Collector
| 3.8 | 19 reads | |
 Legacy
| 3.5 | 13 reads | |
 The Liar
| 3.63 | 18 reads | |
 Black Rose
| 3.83 | 23 reads | |
 Savor the Moment
| 4.1 | 25 reads | |
 Tears Of The Moon
| 4 | 21 reads | |
 Sanctuary
| 3.47 | 21 reads | |
 Key of Knowledge
| 4 | 25 reads | |
 The Pagan Stone
| 4.17 | 22 reads | |
 Tribute
| 3.69 | 18 reads | |
 The perfect hope
| 4.16 | 22 reads | |
 Montana Sky
| 4.07 | 21 reads | |
 Midnight Bayou
| 3.42 | 14 reads | |
 Daring to Dream
| 3.67 | 17 reads | |
 The Villa
| 3.86 | 17 reads | |
 Whiskey Beach
| 3.56 | 22 reads | |
 Shelter in Place
| 4.3 | 15 reads | |
 Red Lily
| 3.85 | 20 reads | |
 Key of Valor
| 3.76 | 21 reads | |
 Mind Games
| 4.3 | 5 reads | |
 High Noon
| 3.27 | 16 reads | |
 Heart of the Sea
| 3.88 | 19 reads | |
 Sea Swept
| 3.64 | 18 reads | |
 True Betrayals
| 3.8 | 13 reads | |
 River's End
| 3.44 | 12 reads | |
 Valley Of Silence
| 3.92 | 18 reads | |
 Sacred Sins
| 3.5 | 9 reads | |
 The Hollow
| 4.39 | 19 reads | |
 Divine Evil
| 3.57 | 10 reads | |
 Finding the Dream
| 4.22 | 11 reads | |
 Playing the Odds
| 3.38 | 13 reads | |
 Carnal Innocence
| 3.86 | 12 reads | |
 Holding the Dream
| 4 | 11 reads | |
 Brazen Virtue
| 3 | 13 reads | |
 Chesapeake Blue
| 4.14 | 16 reads | |
 Island of Glass
| 3.82 | 15 reads | |
 Public Secrets
| 3.57 | 10 reads | |
 Remember When
| 4.38 | 14 reads | |
 The Mirror
| 3.2 | 6 reads | |
 Inner Harbour
| 4.08 | 14 reads | |
 Rising Tides
| 3.91 | 13 reads | |
 The reef
| 3.86 | 8 reads | |
 Captivated
| 4.17 | 10 reads | |
 Three fates
| 4 | 10 reads | |
 Genuine Lies
| 2.25 | 7 reads | |
 The MacGregor Grooms
| 3.5 | 13 reads | |
 The Pride of Jared MacKade
| 3.25 | 13 reads | |
 Entranced
| 3.56 | 12 reads | |
 Homeport
| 3.78 | 9 reads | |
 Heaven and Earth
| 4.39 | 11 reads | |
 Honest illusions
| 3.2 | 6 reads | |
 Bay of sighs Bay of sighs
| 3.78 | 10 reads | |
 Hot Ice
| 3.25 | 9 reads | |
 Unfinished Business
| 3 | 7 reads | |
 The heart of Devin MacKade
| 3.5 | 7 reads | |
 Table For Two
| 3 | 8 reads | |
 Waiting for Nick
| 2.83 | 10 reads | |
 The Return of Rafe MacKade
| 3.63 | 10 reads |